Please share with GD your social networking, home address, number, etc.
i see we have phones now
Yeah. Only things that have actually happened and are documented fact are in that link.
Not whatever vague maybes youâre selling.
Good grief.
I canât speak for Android, but iOS wonât hand over any of the info that the AXS app sells unless the user explicitly grants permission (with a separate permission alert for each permission). If a ticket app asks for access to your camera roll, mic, etc and you say yes, thatâs your responsibility.
EDIT: It should be noted that my full time job has been iOS app development for the past 5 years, so this is not just hearsay.
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Iâll translate out disapproval so the Executives can clearly understand our outrage!
Here goes:
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but you and i both know the average person is too stupid to think about these things in advance. if people thought ahead, facebook wouldâve never had to deal with cambridge analytica.
plus blizz already has the authentication app. why did they go through a 3rd part thats know for being intrusive when they have their own functional app that just needs a little tweaking to be applicable? this is laziness and greed. normally i pass off companies trying to make money as âya, thats what they are suppose to doâ but this isnât just trying to make money. this is taking personal information and selling it because they know most people will just accept the terms without reading anything in the terms of service.
this is abusive on blizzards part.
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This isnt the blizzard entertainment that I fell in love with 15 years ago. I no longer wish to support this company.
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Smh and Iâm not planning to go to blizzcon this year.
Itâs not just agreeing to terms, iOS itself stonewalls apps from any kind of information that the user hasnât approved the app having access to. In fact, if you deny a permission of some kind, the app in quest canât even pop open the permission dialog again⊠the user has to manually go into settings and turn that permission on for that app.
Itâs also not a matter of âthinking in advanceâ â these permission dialogs are shown when the app is opened, not when itâs installed. By default, apps have no access to anything.
So if you open the app and it tries to access your photos, youâll see an alert that says, âAXS Tickets is requesting access to your photosâ right then and there. The permissions arenât just a list of fine print thatâs blurred past you at install.
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Yeah but it has always been the few that fight for the freedoms of the many⊠always.
lol. Blizzard is making money off this, directly or indirectly. Just because a contractor is doing this for them doesnât mean they arenât responsible.
They had better make sure there is extra help at the help desk. My answer is going to be to go to the help desk⊠I think I wonât be aloneâŠ
I used that phone â as with my current phone â only for car emergencies. If Blizzard wants AAAâs 800 number, theyâre welcome to it.
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its for diablo immortal which is made by a what?company from china.
blizzard wants to give all your info to china.
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So I looked into the AXS app, and the company. As it turns out, AXS is a ticket broker/ticket agent. Iâm guessing that Blizzard doesnât have the logistics or resources necessary to manage the entire con, and the tickets, as well as the botting and fraud and all that comes with it.
-A ticket broker will need access to your CC info, if youâre buying tickets from them.
-The app has a âfind parking, the venue site, or a hotel close to your eventâ feature, which wonât work if they donât have your exact GPS location, and they need permission from you to access that.
-Another feature allows you to create a âmemory bookâ of your event, and share it directly to social media, which requires permission to access your photos, so you can manipulate them in the app, and network access to post them straight from the app to your social media.
-To get the QR code, so that you can scan it to get your badges, the app will require network access, so it can cross check with its database that Blizzard provides of who purchased the tickets.
It seems to me that someone, and Id probably blame TheQuartering for this but blame could go anywhere, didnât do enough research on what the app actually was, and just saw the permissions they required, and went âOMG SPYWAREâ . If youâve ever used stubhub, ticketmaster, or any other ticket app, they have close to the exact same permissions required. Just because an application requests permission to do something, doesnât mean that its malicious, or spyware. It also doesnât mean that they will access the info they need permission for, but its easier for them to ask up front once, than ask you 50 times every time you try to use a feature in the app.
Like many others have said, if you have a problem with it, use the support kiosk at the event, or get a prepaid phone, or donât go. Ultimately, you are the judge of what information is too much for a company to have.
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Nailed it. Ragepr0n gets clicks.
Wow this sucks, dont even get an opt out because its required for entry. Way to crap all over your customers.
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dont go to blizzcon vote with your wallets.
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They want to sell your info to China.
Credit card numbers? I mean, câmon, thatâs way over the top for a non-retail app to collect.
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You can buy tickets to events through the app. How do you expect them to process payment w/o payment information?
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